Flight 370

My guess is the pilot hijacked the plane and landed it on a portable runway somewhere in the ocean. Don't know what happens to the passengers but the plane will be used again. All funded by someone from Saudi Arabia.

Too much preparation went into this. There was something on this plane somebody wanted (Chinese gold bullion, narcotics, weapons, money etc.) I don’t think the various intelligence communities are sharing everything here with the general public. The plane probably landed once to unload this hypothetical stuff – and then was crashed into the Himalayas or the southern Indian Ocean. It is a terrific mystery – we may never know the whole story, but unfortunate so many innocent lives were likely used as pawns here.

My guess is the pilot hijacked the plane and landed it on a portable runway somewhere in the ocean. Don't know what happens to the passengers but the plane will be used again. All funded by someone from Saudi Arabia.

That's EXACTLY what I was thinking. Probably a portable runway on the ocean. Like one of those pool floats. Maybe ten of them put together.

In addition, it's Obama's weak and un-strong foreign war-making that emboldened these camel jockies to take this plane. Freakin' Obama.

The Boeing 777-300, at MTOW (Maximum Takeoff Weight), needs a runway that is 11,200 ft long; at MLW (Maximum Landing Weight), needs a runway that is 8,100 ft long.

So I figure, if they used six foot long pool floats they would have needed only 1350 floats. Probably used duct tape to put them together and one of those high capacity hand pumps to inflate them. I think I did the math right.

My guess is the pilot hijacked the plane and landed it on a portable runway somewhere in the ocean. Don't know what happens to the passengers but the plane will be used again. All funded by someone from Saudi Arabia.

That's EXACTLY what I was thinking. Probably a portable runway on the ocean. Like one of those pool floats. Maybe ten of them put together.

In addition, it's Obama's weak and un-strong foreign war-making that emboldened these camel jockies to take this plane. Freakin' Obama.

It landed on purgatory island of course. The passengers and crew are now all participants in the Darma project. Except at night when they are forced into flight simulators at gun point to practice crashing jumbo jets into sky scrapers.

In all seriousness I'm current leaning towards a sudden and catastrophic depressurization followed by hours of aimless flying without anyone or anything at the controls. That actually makes more sense than the "inside job" scenario given the latest data.

My guess is the pilot hijacked the plane and landed it on a portable runway somewhere in the ocean. Don't know what happens to the passengers but the plane will be used again. All funded by someone from Saudi Arabia.

That's EXACTLY what I was thinking. Probably a portable runway on the ocean. Like one of those pool floats. Maybe ten of them put together.

In addition, it's Obama's weak and un-strong foreign war-making that emboldened these camel jockies to take this plane. Freakin' Obama.

Malaysia has camels?

They're Muslim aren't they? They ALL have camels. The number of humps is the only difference.

That is a logical scenario except that the left turn was programmed 12 minutes before the pilots signed off with Good Night. Maybe the pilot programmed it in as a safety measure. If that was the case it probably wasn't the first time he did something like that. There should be some kind of record of pilots doing this as a precaution measure. I would like to hear some pilots speak up about that. It is the most simple explanation.

A portable runway? Is this an Austin Powers movie to you? You seriously think someone was able to move the pieces to build a portable runway out to the middle of the ocean or desert, undetected, land a GIANT airplane on it, disassemble the runway, and sneak a GIANT airplane away? Is that how this went down, Ian Fleming?

My guess is the pilot hijacked the plane and landed it on a portable runway somewhere in the ocean. Don't know what happens to the passengers but the plane will be used again. All funded by someone from Saudi Arabia.

A portable runway? Is this an Austin Powers movie to you? You seriously think someone was able to move the pieces to build a portable runway out to the middle of the ocean or desert, undetected, land a GIANT airplane on it, disassemble the runway, and sneak a GIANT airplane away? Is that how this went down, Ian Fleming?

People have landed on the moon. There are plans in motion to build floating cities with multiple runways. Saudi Arabia has already built islands in the water..or is that Kuwait? At any rate, it could be done. A couple of ships with fuel, unload the passengers...all under ocean camouflage. It could be done. When they're done they just paint the plane, take off, fly low and sink the runway.

I lived in the Maldives for a couple years and one of the first things I thought of was maybe they landed it on the old British air base on Gan Addu, the southernmost atoll of the Maldives. Well, today news comes that some islanders in the next atoll up saw an airliner flying very low that morning. Hmm....

btw, if it had crashed, they'd already be finding junk from it, there are fishermen all over.

A portable runway? Is this an Austin Powers movie to you? You seriously think someone was able to move the pieces to build a portable runway out to the middle of the ocean or desert, undetected, land a GIANT airplane on it, disassemble the runway, and sneak a GIANT airplane away? Is that how this went down, Ian Fleming?

People have landed on the moon. There are plans in motion to build floating cities with multiple runways. Saudi Arabia has already built islands in the water..or is that Kuwait? At any rate, it could be done. A couple of ships with fuel, unload the passengers...all under ocean camouflage. It could be done. When they're done they just paint the plane, take off, fly low and sink the runway.

A portable runway? Is this an Austin Powers movie to you? You seriously think someone was able to move the pieces to build a portable runway out to the middle of the ocean or desert, undetected, land a GIANT airplane on it, disassemble the runway, and sneak a GIANT airplane away? Is that how this went down, Ian Fleming?

People have landed on the moon. There are plans in motion to build floating cities with multiple runways. Saudi Arabia has already built islands in the water..or is that Kuwait? At any rate, it could be done. A couple of ships with fuel, unload the passengers...all under ocean camouflage. It could be done. When they're done they just paint the plane, take off, fly low and sink the runway.

I'm going to assume now that you are joking. In this day nobody could land on the moon in secret. And no country with the ability, logistically, to do it would be able to do the things necessary to do everything you described, especially undetected. Plus a "portable runway" would move in so many directions it would be impossible for a pilot who hasn't trained specifically to land on one to safely do that. I suppose if they had built a solid runway under the ocean in a hidden volcano, in a secret base, with thousands of "hench men", and raised the hidden sunken volcano runway at just the right time, and the pilot landed the plane, and the plane descended into the hidden undersea volcano, and the hidden undersea volcano sunk back into the sea...I guess if it went that way it would be possible. But Ethan Hunt and Jimmy Bond could easily save all those people, so all is not lost.

I wasn't joking. I didn't mean to suggest that someone could land on the moon is secret. The point is that if the technology was available to land on the moon 45 years ago, the technology is probably available today to land a plane in the ocean. We can make big things that float. The pilot had a simulator in his house so he could have trained for anything. A couple of years ago that pilot landed in the Hudson with little power. However, you would need a runway to take off again. It's possible. What I didn't think was possible is to have no trace of that plane after two weeks if it crashed some where. But it seems that is also possible.

I wasn't joking. I didn't mean to suggest that someone could land on the moon is secret. The point is that if the technology was available to land on the moon 45 years ago, the technology is probably available today to land a plane in the ocean. We can make big things that float. The pilot had a simulator in his house so he could have trained for anything. A couple of years ago that pilot landed in the Hudson with little power. However, you would need a runway to take off again. It's possible. What I didn't think was possible is to have no trace of that plane after two weeks if it crashed some where. But it seems that is also possible.

No one would expect it. Unload the passengers. (ransom) Paint it. Fuel up and take off for some other predetermined site. After the time the fuel ran out no one would be looking for it in the air and it it could be easier to fly the plane under radar to somewhere else.

No one would expect it. Unload the passengers. (ransom) Paint it. Fuel up and take off for some other predetermined site. After the time the fuel ran out no one would be looking for it in the air and it it could be easier to fly the plane under radar to somewhere else.

Paint it? really...just like that? are you really that clueless? Do you have any idea what it would take the repaint a Boeing 777? I can tell you what it takes to repaint an FA-18 and that is a bit smaller than a 777. you really are not very bright.

No one would expect it. Unload the passengers. (ransom) Paint it. Fuel up and take off for some other predetermined site. After the time the fuel ran out no one would be looking for it in the air and it it could be easier to fly the plane under radar to somewhere else.

Paint it? really...just like that? are you really that clueless? Do you have any idea what it would take the repaint a Boeing 777? I can tell you what it takes to repaint an FA-18 and that is a bit smaller than a 777. you really are not very bright.

They only need to paint markings or colors. If they have the proper tools, probably about the same time it takes to unload and refuel.

I'm fairly new to this forum and all I can say is damn this **** is funny. The secret floating 2 mile runway theory is really over the top. We have a zillion satellites looking for small pieces of crap in the water but somehow they wouldn't spot a 2 mile long floating object with with a plane parked on it and apparently an Earl Scheib paint crew.

I'm fairly new to this forum and all I can say is damn this **** is funny. The secret floating 2 mile runway theory is really over the top. We have a zillion satellites looking for small pieces of crap in the water but somehow they wouldn't spot a 2 mile long floating object with with a plane parked on it and apparently an Earl Scheib paint crew.

YAHTZEE!

I don't know but I think the black hole theory is over the top. The runway was sunk and the plane long gone before they even started looking for it.